Faith

Abraham's faith took him away
and into a strange land, through
the hardship of a long wait for the
fulfillment of God's promise of an
heir, and all the way to Mt. Moriah
and back with his beloved son Isaac.
Here, we see Abraham with his
terrible sacrificial knife in hand, yet
with a countenance conveying trust
in God's benign care. He stands
beneath a sky full of stars, signifying
God's promise that his children would
one day be as numerous as "the stars
of the sky." Dietrich Bonhoeffer sits
below, presumably writing one of his
great works, perhaps Discipleship;
in this book he reminds us of the
high cost of faithful discipleship. As
a prisoner executed in wartime, he
paid the price in full, thus confirming
his thesis that in true faith there is no
cheap grace.